Cross v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

By indictment appellant was charged with mixing poison with food with the intent to injure E. S. Dunlap and other persons unknown to the grand jury; upon conviction his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The reliance of the State was upon circumstantial evidence which is deemed sufficient to support the finding of the jury to the effect that Paris Green was, by the appellant, put in the coffee pot used by Dunlap with the intent to poison him. Appellant testified and denied the commission of the offense.

The State’s theory,…